Azir vs Kennen
How to Beat Kennen as Azir
based on 664 Azir vs Kennen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Kennen Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Kennen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kennen as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Kennen
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
Advice to Win Against Kennen
Consider playing a bit more cautiously around Kennen when you have a Mark of the Storm debuff. If he hits you with 3 Marks of the Storm, you will get stunned.
Kennen is flimsy by nature - turn and attack him if he gets careless with Lightning Rush.
Azir vs Kennen Counter Stats
How to Counter Kennen with Azir in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several important Azir vs. Kennen matchup statistics that can help you understand the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kennen’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Kennen..
Azir usually has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Kennen. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Azir and Kennen
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Who is Better, Azir or Kennen?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Azir usually wins when taking on Kennen, with a 52.7% win rate. As a result, Azir makes a good counter for Kennen.
While Azir does have a higher winrate than Kennen, when they face off with one another, Azir also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Azir into Kennenas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Azir has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kennen. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Azir vs Kennen matchups, Azir is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Azir is a good counter for Kennen. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Azir against Kennen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Azir to counter Kennen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir often gets a similar amount of CS relative to Kennen. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Azir versus Kennen build consist of Lich Bane, Nashor's Tooth, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Azir incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Kennen than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Azir boasted an average winrate of 52.7% when countering Kennen with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Kennen as Azir, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players used for Azir vs Kennen counter picks, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.7% winrate overall.
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